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Scotland
Scotland is a country in the United
kingdom
to the north of England.Its symbol is a
thistle,Its St. Andrew.
Edinburgh is not the largest city in Scotland. Glasgow,
which lias a population of over one million, is twice as
large as Edinburgh.
Even so, Edinburgh remains the centre of the life of
Scotland.
Here are the administrative centres of the Navy, the
Army,
and tlie Air Force, the chief banks and offices; and the
famous university
Edinburg
Edinburgh and the main industrial
center Glasgow.
The Edinburg militari tatto place
every August and
September and is known throughourt the world.
Scottish towns look very different from
english towns. Some words about Edinburgh.
Edinburgh, capital of Scotland,
is one of Britain’s most attractive cities.
It’s a city for people who like to walk.
Greyfriars Bobby
Greyfriars Bobby was a Skye
Terrier who became known in
19th-century Edinburgh for supposedly
spending 14 years guarding the
grave of his owner until he died himself on
14 January 1872.
People who live in Scotland arc Scots.
The capital of Scotland is Edinburgh, but Scotland has
no separate Parliament, for the Scottish MPs
(Members of Parliament)
sit with the English ones in
Westminster in London
Edinburgh is famous for many things: its
festivals (plays and music),
its college of medicine, its museums
and libraries, and for its writers
Sir Walter Scott,
Robert Louis Stevenson and others.
The Cannongate
The Canongate is a former burgh and township with
its
own administrative set-up which was incorporated
by a
growing Edinburgh, in 1856. It now remains as a
small
but important district at the heart of the capital city
of Scotland.
Edinburgh, unlike Glasgow, has no large factories.
Publishing is its well-known industry.
It has been famous for its printers since the early
years of the sixteenth century,
when the first Scottish printing-press was set up
within its walls.
The publishing of books is today a very important
industry. Much printing is done f
or London publishing houses,
and there are many paper-mills near Edinburgh.
The Scott Monument
The Scott Monument is a Victorian Gothic
monument to
Scottish author Sir Walter Scott.
It stands in Princes Street Gardens in
Edinburgh,
opposite the Jenners department store on
Princes Street
and near to Edinburgh Waverley Railway
Station.
Edinburgh is a beautiful city.
The first thing you see in Edinburgh is the Rock -— the very
large
hill in the middle of the city,
on which stands Edinburgh Castle..
The Castle looks like a castle from a fairy-tale,
and parts of it are more than a thousand years old.
From the top of the Castle there is a beautiful view of the hill and
the sea.
Besides the Castle there are many other interesting buildings,
such as Holyrood Palace which is the old royal residence, the
Art Gallery,
the University of Edinburgh
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Учитель: Токарева И. Э.